More like the original demographic of Facebook, before it went mainstream

I’ve had bitcoin transactions that literally took several days to process. This was also using an average fee. The more people using bitcoin, especially to handle common every-day transactions, the worse this problem would get.

Fusion is likely the end-game power gen tech for humanity, assuming no new physics (and excluding Dyson structures). For the long term, it likely will be the most useful way of generating mass amounts of electricity you can get, and access to more energy enables more possibilities of all sorts of things, enabling even things that are extremely impractical today due to their energy needs

For example, carbon capture becomes a possibility, and stuff like mass desalination. And then you could, in theory, go even more extreme with stuff like terraforming mars at human timescales, with enough energy. Of course this depends how practical and efficient fusion reactors actually would be, but with enough energy you can do so so much

AI is not doomed, LLMs or consumer AI products, might be

In industries AI is and will be used (though probably not LLMs, still, except in a few niche use cases)

Mood

I don’t know about others, but in my friend group there’s an unspoken rule that you do not record or take a picture of people without their consent. Or at least, if you do, to, say, capture a moment, you ask them if it’s okay afterwards.

Another problem is the increased complexity of fossil fuel vehicles, specifically in stuff like the engine, gears, pollution filters, etc. A fossil fuel vehicle is just intrinsically more complicated. Which doesn’t directly relate to the density, but it gives electric vehicles an advantage.

Once everything is set up properly it just works tbh. Meanwhile in windows updates broke something every other time.

So have horses

Take a picture of your own face, to see how it actually looks like for others, and not in a mirror.

Truly fucks you up

Even if it was just a “small thing”, how many “small things” that are all individually excusable has Microsoft added now? When would it be too much?

Yes I know degrowth isn’t about population, that’s what I said?

But if population naturally declines, I really don’t think it’s a good idea to try to reverse that trend. Less people means less resources consumed, and better quality of life for those children. Prioritize the people already alive over those that aren’t born. We have more than enough people in the world, and a lot of those people’s potential is not fully reached due to inequality.

Degrowth isn’t just about population, or even about it at all. Degrowth is about doing the opposite of what capitalism forces us to do, infinite growth on a finite planet.

But also, the last thing we should do is incentivize birthing more people. We have increasing amounts of automation technologies, we don’t need more people.

I guess because the Gen Z comp sci students are the people who are truly fluent in computers. We were immersed in the internet and digital technology from a young age, but also had the curiosity to go beneath the surface of them, and get a real understanding of how things work. Most people just use the technology superficially, even if they have grown up with the internet and computers.

Of course it’s assuming that’s how advanced propulsion tech works. But it is useful to try to detect, just in case that’s how it actually turns out to work, no?

And if we detect something interesting, like a potential warp bubble collapse, well, that also gives us a strong hint that it’s possible, helping us to direct research in the right path.

Detecting techno-signatures of aliens would be super useful for us.

That it doesn’t have an unlocked frame rate should be unacceptable tbh. High refresh rate monitors are common and cheap these days.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup are two examples off the top of my head. Traditional roguelikes are often open source.

Yee, you’re mot going to be hurt by open sourcing your game 5 or 10 years later. By that time practically nobody will buy your game anymore. And of the ones who still will,.they likely aren’t the ones that would even bother with looking for alternatives other than a big sale on a store page

But then, open sourcing adds to human culture, it lets others modify the game, or use it as a foundation for something new. And those things will credit you, and you will still get some extra benefit/good pr.

It’s just a good thing to do, imo.

It can be useful in explaining concepts you’re unsure about, in regards to the reading part, but you should always verify that information.

But it has helped me understand certain concepts in the past, where I struggled with finding good explanations using a search engine.

To be fair, you need a license to drive cars